[Louisiana Field Director Andrew] Axsom said the complaint against
the party consists of three parts.
The first includes a claim of a violation of party rules in failing
to alert the general public two months prior to the registration deadline.
"The first time the Republican party mentioned anything to the
public about the caucus was Dec. 17," Axsom said.
The second part of the complaint is that the party pushed back the
original Jan. 10 deadline to register as a delegate.
Paul campaigners registered 15 delegates in each district so voters
could choose a full slate of delegates who supported Paul to vote for
him at the Republican state convention.
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Axsom said he submitted a full slate of Paul delegates to the party
on Jan. 8. He said the list included 105 delegates and 70 alternates.
Axsom said six hours after he handed in the slate, Louisiana Republican
Party communications and political director Jason Doré sent out
a news release extending the deadline to register delegates until Jan.
12. Axsom said extending the deadline gave supporters of other candidates
the opportunity to fill up their slates.
Doré was unavailable to comment.
Phillip Joffrion, Republican Party office volunteer, said the deadline
was pushed back because of complaints that there was not adequate notification
of the delegate registration deadline. He said news releases sent out
to major media sources were not published in time to advertise the deadline.
"Jason Doré did not amend the rules. He decided to arbitrarily
take authority into his hands that we believe he did not have,"
Axsom said.
Axsom said the only way to push back a deadline would be through the
Rules Committee at the state convention or the Republican State Central
Committee.
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